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The Right has politicized private life, expanding the zone of public sexuality. This guarantees policies that will worsen social problems and increase personal anxiety, providing proof that sexuality is fundamentally neg… More >>
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The Right has politicized private life, expanding the zone of public sexuality. This guarantees policies that will worsen social problems and increase personal anxiety, providing proof that sexuality is fundamentally neg… More >>
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“The battle lines have been drawn, and it’s not just the think tanks and advocacy groups that have stakes in this war. The sexuality of everyone is at risk, making America’s War on Sex a must read for all citizens” says Bill Taverner, M.A. Co-Founding Editor, American Journal of Sexuality Education. Author Michael Castleman reports “America’s War on Sex–the title may sound a bit hyped, but it’s isn’t. It’s true: Social conservatives have truly declared war on sex, and no one lays out their agenda better than Marty Klein in this frightening and cogently argued book. Frightening because sexual civil rights are in jeopardy. Klein describes how the forces of sex-negativity are working to set up camp in our bedrooms.
Honored CAMFT (California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists -)member, Dr. Marty Klein is making people angry with his newest book, America’s War On Sex. And rightfully so! Upon delivering this outstanding book the AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists) Best Book of the Year Award at a sex therapist conference in June, Dr. Joy Davidson stated that she was angry while reading this book and that everyone in America, especially therapist, should be too!
Why be angry while reading Dr. Klein extremely factual, and yet at times humorous, discourse on sex in America today? Because he is right! We, all Americans, are under attack by those who want to robe us of our sexual rights, freedoms and education! In this book Dr. Klein explains with great fines how abstinence only sex education is being promoted and funded by our government despite overwhelming evidence of its failure to deliver the results it has promised, how women’s rights to purchase and own vibrators are being legally denied by an increasing amount of state legislators and how sexual mis-information is deliberately being promoted in an effort to take away rights from the GLBT communities!
The anger one experiences when reading this book is not limited to sex therapists or the general public either. It is vital that all psychotherapists read and understand the issues addressed in this book. Our clients come into our offices carrying guilt and shame for engaging in healthy sexual practices after being convinced by negative myths promoted to illuminate sex from our society. They struggle with issue around parenting stemming from fear based messages about children’s sexuality. HIV, unwanted pregnancy and the lack of positive sexual expression is the result. We as psychotherapist have an obligation to know the facts about sexuality, to help our clients understand them, to debunk dangerous myths and to support our client’s sexual education, personal development and positive sexuality within couples. That is why I say America’s War On Sex is the most important book in our field today and is a must read by all clinicians!
Stephen L. Braveman, M.A., L.M.F.T., D.S.T.
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist # MFC 28926
AASECT Certified Diplomate of Sex Therapy
AASECT Certified Supervisor and Certified CE Provider
Gender Specialist – Clinical Member of WPATH
Tantra Facilitator-Practitioner
AASECT Western Region Representative
CAMFT Past President – Monterey Chapter
Author:
- “Innovative Methods of Treating Patients with Sexual Trauma”
in “Innovations in Clinical Practice: Focus on Sexual Health, 2007″
- “CPR for Your Sex Life: How to Breathe Life Into a Dead, Dying or Dull Sex Life”
(Co-Author: Mildred Brown, Ph.D.), 2007.
Rating: 5 / 5
I thought this book was very well written! It made alot of points that I wasn’t aware of!
Rating: 4 / 5
Criticism from my classmates who have read the book have included that it’s “too liberal” and “biased,” but I think that it is passionate, well-written and extremely insightful. This has been the best book I’ve read for grad school so far, in fact, because it is written with intelligence and wit and never gets boring.
Rating: 5 / 5
Wonderful information. Dr. Klein backs up his positions with actual facts and science, something that the other side doesn’t do. His explanation on how our government views science as just another argument to circumvent when it comes to sexuality is worth the price of the book alone. Great read!
Rating: 5 / 5
America’s War on Sex??? If you’re not in the trenches, you might be thinking “come on…” But Dr. Marty Klein makes a compelling argument: one that clearly outlines how the fundamental rights and freedoms we all cherish — the ones so deeply ingrained that we don’t even think about them — are under attack. Drawing back the curtain on an anti-sexual revolution that has been in the works for more than a generation, Dr. Klein issues a wakeup call to all Americans who give a damn about their liberties.
The battle lines have been drawn, and it’s not just the think tanks and advocacy groups that have stakes in this war. The sexuality of everyone is at risk, making America’s War on Sex a must read for all citizens.
Bill Taverner, M.A.
Co-Founding Editor, American Journal of Sexuality Education
Rating: 5 / 5